To a large extent, your happiness results from your comparing your situation to your expectations for that situation. You are happier the better you are, compared to what you would have expected to be. Both of these parameters vary with how you frame their context. Especially your expectations. Do you compare yourself to your most successful siblings or childhood friends, or to the average human, or animal, in history? We all know that we have choices about how we frame such things, and thus we know that we would be happier if we were to choose framings that lowered our expectations. ….[READ]
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